Critical Chain Project Management

A New Paradigm for Project Management

Situation

Product development organizations have at their disposal a number of extremely powerful intellectual technologies with which to meet the needs and expectations of customers, with their products. These include TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Finite Element Analysis, Design of Experiments, etc.

However, most product development organizations could benefit more from their QFD and other efforts. The reason is not that the individual contributors lack the requisite capabilities but that the absence of an effective multi-project management process creates an environment that is toxic to these intellectual technologies. Worse, the lack of an effective multi-project management process creates massive delays, and it wastes as much as 50% of a product development organization's workforce effectiveness.

About this workshop

With a number of highly effective experiential exercises, the instructor demonstrates how a dramatic increase in speed can be achieved through the elimination of multitasking. More important, the management policies and practices that create the damaging multitasking paradigm are identified; effective replacements for these are designed throughout the workshop.

During this workshop you will learn the following:

1. Robust project design, using the Critical Chain model.

2. Lean Project Planning.

3. Effective multi-project scheduling, using the concept of a pacesetter resource.

4. How to assess the true value of development projects and improvement projects.

5. Why the widely used, traditional measurement of cycle time is causing multi-project organizations to waste money.

6. What measurement is a true and consistent indicator of performance improvements, for multi-project organizations.

7. How some companies have used the techniques taught in this workshop to DOUBLE their speed to market, without hiring additional resources.

More importantly, you will experience first-hand why these techniques create a fertile, lasting environment for QFD and other intellectual technologies.

Who should attend?

Product development executives, senior managers, resource managers, project managers, QFD Green Belts^®, QFD Black Belts^®, and change agents.


Prerequisites
An open mind.


To inquire

A public seminar/tutorial on Critical Chain Project Management may be offered at the QFD Institute's annual Symposium on QFD.  In-house seminars may be arranged by contacting the QFD Institute TEL: +1 734-995-0847, Email: qfdi@qfdi.org.

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